Expository Writing (EXWR1-UC)

Introduction to Creative and Expository Writing introduces students to broad a range of writing activities, exercises and texts within the fields of creative and expository writing. Students will sharpen their skills through practice and reflection and learn how to use writing as a tool for thinking, learning and organizing. They will write, read and analyze texts in a variety of forms to help them generate ideas and focus their thinking. They will also become more familiar with the conventions of Standard English. By the end of the semester students will have developed strategies for effective writing and communication.

This course concerns the interrelationship between writing and reading-both of which are processes of thinking and discovering ideas. The class emphasizes strategies for generating and clarifying ideas, refining analytical thinking, using evidence effectively, controlling detail and generalization, and developing a sense of audience.

This second-level course stresses analytical thinking and the use of evidence in the context of research and other scholarly writing. Students expand their understanding of the purposes and processes of research by developing a formal investigatory paper. Frequent written assignments as well as the workshop structure help students build fluency.